Straight pins



2, 1955. H. H. SAPPEY 2,714,238

STRAIGHT PINS Filed Jan. 5, 1954 INVENTOR. H'orold H. Sappey ATTORNEY United States Patent STRAIGHT PINS Harold H. Sappey, Kew Gardens, N. Y.

Application January 5, 1954, Serial No. 402,202

1 Claim. (Cl. 24-150) This invention relates to straight pins for use in pinning pieces of fabric together.

An object of this invention is to provide a straight pin which may be easily and quickly handled in the fabric (garment) industry for pinning pieces of fabric in position exactly where desired, without requiring the fabric to be raised or puckered or shifted in order to permit the pin to be inserted.

Another object of the invention is to provide a straight pin having a specially constructed head to serve as an operating handle by means of which the pin may be readily operated and pushed directly into a fabric while giving the operator a substantially good hold on the operating end of the pin, so it will not be necessary to adjust and move or shift the fabric out of the position which it should occupy where it is being pinned in place.

Another object of the invention is to provide a simply constructed pin, to be shaped from a wire and to be formed in such manner that the cut-ofi end of the operating loop or head of the pin will be disposed in a position where it will not engage the fabric and cause a snag.

Another object of the invention is to provide a straight pin to be made from a wire, with a loop element to serve as the operating handle or head and with the cut-off terminal of the loop positioned in such manner as to be below any plane of contact with the material with which the pin may be used, in order thereby to prevent any snagging of the material while the operation on the fabric is being performed, or when the pin is removed.

Another object of the invention is to provide a pin with a simple transverse operating handle which may be easily picked up and easily manipulated by an operator when the pin is to be placed in position in a fabric.

The construction of the pin and its advantages may be readily appreciated upon reference to the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a side perspective view of the pin, showing the operating handle by means of which the pin may be easily manipulated, and the safe location of the terminal end;

Figure 2 is a front end view of the pin of Fig. 1, illustrating the manner in which the pin may be easily manipulated by the handle without milling the fabric material and its adjusted flat position;

Figure 3 is a similar end view showing the pin of Fig. 2 in rest position, folded over on the fabric, and illustrates the manner in which the terminal end of the handle is hidden within the handle loop so the end will be 2,714,238 Patented Aug. 2, 1955 kept out of contact with any fabric material into which the pin is inserted.

As shown in the drawings, a straight pin 10, which may be made from a metallic wire, is formed with a shank 11, a sharp point or tip 12, and an operating handle 13. The handle 13 itself is integral with the shank and represents a continuation of the shank and is formed to embody a double circular loop or short helix of two convolutions 14 and an additional transversely extended loop 15 which serves as the handle for the pin. The unsharpened cut end 16 of the wire constitutes the end of the transverse handle loop. In order that the cut end 16 of the handle 15 where it is cut off from the wire stock, may not stick out to snag any of the fabric when the pin is being used, that cut end 16 of the operating loop or handle 15 is moved down inwardly to be confined within the contour of the circular convolutions 14 so the cut end 16 is below the outer planes defined by the two convolutions 14.

By means of the construction shown in the drawings, the pin may be easily manipulated by the handle 15 to move the pin horizontally into one or more layers of fabric 17 that are lying flat on a working surface. The fabric layers 17 may be smoothed out to the position which they are to occupy during the fitting or checking operation, and, since the pin may be easily manipulated into the fabric without raising the fabric from its position, the exact pattern or relationship between the fabric layers will not be disturbed.

The pin itself, as may be seen, is simple in construction and may be easily and readily picked up or isolated from a batch, and then easily handled by means of the laterally extending handle 15 to impress a push on the pin directly in the direction in which it is to be used, irrespective of the disposition of the fabric material into which the pin is to be disposed.

The pin thus provides ease of isolation and selection and removal from a batch, and extreme case of manipulation and maneuvering into position without injury to the fingers. Thereafter, the confinement of the unsharpened cut end of the loop handle 15 to a zone within the contours of the helix, prevents any possible snagging.

What is claimed is:

A straight pin formed from resilient wire and consisting of a shank having its front end pointed and its back end proceeding directly and continuously into a plural convolution helix, and the helix continuing into a transversely extended loop having one side as a continuation from the helix and having its other side as a continuing return side to the helix to serve as a handle, the terminal of said return side being bent down to extend into the helix and being pressed against the inner surface of one or more helix convolutions by the inherent resiliency of the handle loop.

References Cited in the file of this natent UNITED STATES PATENTS 736,547 Rhoades Aug. 18, 1903 FOREIGN PATENTS 408,249 France of 1910 703,610 France of 1931 

